1. Rector: A.T. Filippov Leaders: A.S. Sorin V.V. Voronov

2. DIAS-TH at JINR : Standing Activity  DIAS-TH is a substructure of BLTP supported by the JINR’s budget as one of priority activities of the Institute.  DIAS-TH organizes and controls all educational programmes for young scientists, graduates, and students.  DIAS-TH programme includes both the standing activity through the year and the standard short schools (about 4 - 5 in a year). The main goals of DIAS-TH:  training courses for young scientists, graduates and undergraduates from the JINR MS and other countries  looking for and supporting gifted young theorists in the JINR Member States  creating databases of students and young researchers;  organization of schools of different level in Dubna  coordination with similar schools in the JINR MS, Germany, and other cntrs.  support of the JINR and CERN experimental programmes by organizing lecture courses and lectures with a special emphasis on the LHC program  coordination with the schools and workshops supported by CERN, UNESCO, ICTP, and other organizations  publication and distribution of lectures and discussions in different forms, in particular, with the use of modern electronic means, etc.

3. Supported by In 2008, we have received the grant in the framework of the UNESCO International Basic Science Programme Supporting up to 2005

4. In 2004-2008, the following activities in the framework of DIAS-TH were:  Winter School on Theoretical Physics (2004--2008);  International Student School on Selected Topics in Nuclear Theory (2004);  Advanced Summer School on Modern Mathematical Physics (2004--2008);  Research Workshop "Nucleation Theory and Applications" (2004--2008);  School on Modern Cosmology and Astrophysics (2004);  School on Heavy Quark Physics (2005, 2008);  International School on Nuclear Theory and Astrophysical Applications (2005, 2007);  School and Workshop on Calculations for Modern and Future Colliders (2006);  School on Few-Body Problems in Physics (2006);  School on Dense Matter in Heavy Ion Collisions and Astrophysics (2006, 2008)

5. Other activities:  Lecture courses and review lectures on new trends in modern physics were given for students and post-graduates.  Computer processing of video records of lectures was carried out.  A new lecture hall for DIAS-TH was opened.  Web-site of DIAS-TH was opened and supported http://theor.jinr.ru/~diastp/diasth

6. Prominent scientists from JINR, Russia, Ukraine, Czechia, and Germany were invited as lecturers. 60 students and post- graduates from JINR, Belarus, Germany, Kazakhstan, Poland, Russia, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, and Czechia took part in the School.

7. The School was attended by last-year students of universities, post-graduate students, and young scientists: 64 participants from Russia, Belorus, Belgium, Bolgaria, Venezuela, Germany, Spain, Poland, Ukraine, and Chechia. Lectures were given by the leading scientists actively working on modern problems of theoretical and mathematical physics: I. Buchbinder, L. Cardoso, A. Filippov, E. Ivanov, V. Rubakov, A. Starobinsky, M. Vasiliev. 13 cycles of lectures were supplemented with seminars.

8. The program of three schools and research workshop covered such fields of theoretical physics as particle astrophysics, gravity and cosmology, sypersymmetry and string theory, conformal field theory, structure of an atomic nucleus, nuclear reaction theory, halo nuclei, properties of neutron stars, nucleosynthesis in stars, properties of nuclear matter, critical phenomena and nucleation theory. The leading scientists from Canada, China, Finland, Germany, Romania, Russia, Spain and JINR gave more than 40 lecture courses for about 170 PhD students and young scientists from Armenia, Belarus, China,Croatia, Czechia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, Russia,Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and JINR University Centre. Activities were supported by the Helmholtz Foundation, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Dinastiya Foundation and JINR.

9. 2008 DIAS-TH Activity The first school in this year: Physics at the LHC, new ideas and perspectives. Special additional lectures on modern technics, accelerators, CERN experimental facilities etc. 70 participants from Russia and the JINR MS. Two weeks of introductory lectures and review talks on new trends in modern physics

10. You are welcome to the School!